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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.

People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.